Swindon Recital Series 2024-2025
Paul Turner – piano
27th April 2025 Arts Centre @ 3:00 pm An intriguing combination of Jazz, Classical, Romantic, Modernist, Impressionist and Tango, with works by Gershwin, Beethoven, Chopin, Tippett, Debussy and Ginastera to truly explore the full range of sounds available to the solo...
Julian Metzger – cello
19th March 2025 Wyvern Theatre @ 1:05 pm Julian Metzger cello Paul Turner piano Drama and virtuosity are on full display in Martinů’s jazz-influenced third Cello Sonata and a spectacular sound-world explored courtesy of Prokofiev.
Rhythmic Virtuosity
19th February 2025 Wyvern Theatre @ 1:05 pm Clare Toomer piano Paul Turner piano Sacha Johnson percussion Alastair Marshallsay percussion Rhythmic virtuosity from Bartok and the legendary Steve Reich exploit a full percussion section, including two pianos, vibraphones...
Christopher Gibbons and Rae Todd – clarinets
29th January 2025 Wyvern Theatre @ 1:05 pm Christopher Gibbons clarinet Rae Todd clarinet Just two clarinets weave a magical spell with great twentieth-century composers such as Poulenc, Marc Mellits, László and Richard Rodney Bennett. Mesmerising….
‘Just one of those things’
15th December 2024 Arts Centre @ 3:00 pm Clare McCaldin vocals Paul Sheehan vocals Stephen Dickinson piano ‘Just one of those things’ is a staged setting of Cole Porter songs, telling the life story of one of the greatest popular song writers of the 20th...
Carol Hubel-Allen – Viola
13th November 2024 Wyvern Theatre @ 1:05 pm Paul Turner piano The many faces of Shostakovich explored in his film music to the Gadfly and his Viola Sonata, alongside Beethoven’s Moonlight sonata.
Dale Piano Trio with Elizabeth Drew
11th September 2024 Wyvern Theatre @ 1:05 pm Miranda Dale violin Caroline Dale cello Paul Turner piano Elizabeth Drew clarinet Messiaen’s iconic Quartet for the End of Time sets the scene for our Modernist Classics season. Sponsored by